Senate Hours Extended As Government Hopes To Push Through $1.6 Billion Childcare Package

The Turnbull Government has split the mega $4 billion omnibus savings bills.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visits a Canberra childcare centre as he hopes his childcare package will pass the senate.

CANBERRA -- The Turnbull Government has split the mega $4 billion omnibus savings bill in a bid to get previous federal budget measures, including a $1.6 billion childcare package, passed before the next budget.

And the government has extended the sitting hours of Senate to midnight tonight and tomorrow and through Friday in a bid to pass the measures.

The Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Social Services Minister Christian Porter want the new split bills passed through Parliament this week.

But it is already looking good for the government, with influential senator Nick Xenophon indicating he and his two senators will support a renamed the Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 designed to bring in budget savings worth $2.4 billion over the next four years which has been introduced on Wednesday.

Other elements of the now former omnibus bill, including a four week wait for young people to get the dole, are expected to be repackaged and introduced later, while the childcare package can be found here.

The savings measures, introduced Wednesday, to pay for the bulk of the $1.6 billion childcare package have been revealed as a freeze over the next financial year to the Family Tax Benefit rates worth $1.3 billion.

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Pauline Hanson's One Nation had formed a roadblock for the government, issuing a statement earlier on Wednesday, attacking the $3 billion welfare aspect of the Omnibus Bill as cutting "too hard, to (sic) broadly and too deeply into the hip pockets of Australian families".

"As it stands now Pauline Hanson's One Nation will not allow this Omnibus Bill to pass," the statement read.

"We are working through you to make sure we get an outcome," Birmingham told reporters in Canberra.

"We face challenges in workforce productivity and participation where childcare costs are a barrier. We are fixing that through these childcare reforms.

"We face problems, though, in terms of the size of the debt and deficit scale we face and we are addressing that through spending restraint and through the types of savings measures identified and we are seeking to progress them both."

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